A political system borrowed from the West is hampering all progress and dividing the polity

Prof. Kittu Reddy Mother India, 15 AUGUST 2007

I have quoted these extracts just to highlight the sense of despondency that is prevalent and widespread among many serious political thinkers in India. In sum, the problems facing India are:

 A political system borrowed from the West which is hampering all progress and dividing the polity
 Serious anti-national and secessionist trends
 A society deeply divided in the name of religion, caste and even gender
 Corruption at all levels and particularly at the higher political levels; India ranks high among the corrupt nations
 An absence of national feeling leading to regionalism and parochialism where local interest becomes more important than the national interest
 The enormous gap between the rich and the poor despite a vigorous economic growth.
 The dangers emanating from our neighbourhood, where most of the nations are facing serious tensions and seem to be heading towards being called “failed States”
 The shortcomings in the educational system both in quality and quantity and its failure to uplift the nation as a whole

We shall now try to see where the root causes for this situation lie. For, it is only after finding out the causes that we can think of applying the remedy.